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The total land area in drought over the continental U.S. has receded slightly, according to the latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor, but more than half of the country is still plagued, to some degree, by the dry spell of historic proportions that began last spring. As of November 6, a little more than a week after Hurricane Sandy dropped … Read More
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The combination of heavy, wet snow and strong winds caused at least 375,000 homes in New York and New Jersey to lose power, and snarled travel by making roads hazardous and shutting down the Long Island Rail Road due to downed trees along the tracks. According to the New York Times, there are about 683,000 homes in the tristate area that remained i… Read More
Although the high wind threat for inland areas is not as significant as it was during Sandy, if heavy, wet snow accumulates on trees and power lines it could result in a new round of power outages in parts of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts that are still recovering. … Read More
The visualizations show that both the extent and location of the strongest winds differed greatly between these two damaging storms. In the case of Katrina, tropical storm force winds stretched about 300 miles from edge to edge, and the strongest winds were located within a circle of towering thunderstorms surrounding the storm center, known as the… Read More
In a public forecast discussion on Tuesday morning, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast office for New York City stated that if the storm tracks further offshore, as more recent computer modeling suggests, then the “impacts however might not be as significant as previously forecast... but still significant nevertheless.… Read More
The question of how human activity affects hurricanes has been much on peoples’ minds lately, for obvious reasons. But the influence of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are far broader than that, and scientists are wrestling on many different fronts with exactly the same issue: can we detect the fingerprint of human activity on any number of climate … Read More
Even before the nor’easter, though, there is another weather threat that could hinder storm recovery efforts, and threaten those who are still without power. Preceding the storm will be colder than usual weather for this time of year, with most areas outside of New York City dipping below freezing on Monday night.… Read More
“ Bill McKibben is lanky, soft-spoken, scholarly and engaging. He may also be the closest thing the U.S. environmental movement has to a leader. And he's in show business now. Still soft-spoken, but very, very angry. On a crisp night earlier this month, a mostly-Gen Next crowd filled the University of Vermont's Allen Chapel to see the dress rehears… Read More
The United States has many areas where geological formations are likely to be suitable for long-term carbon dioxide storage
